Middlebrow literature and the making of German-Jewish identity /
Hess, Jonathan M.,1965-
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-249) and index.
When rabbis became novelists : the emergence of Jewish literature in nineteenth-century Germany -- Under the sword of the Spanish inquisition : the Sephardic legacy and the making of middlebrow classics -- Leopold Kompert and the pleasures of nostalgia : ghetto fiction and the creation of a usable past -- Middlebrow culture in pursuit of romance : love, fiction and the virtues of marrying in -- Middlebrow fiction and the making of modern orthodoxy.
German literature
German fiction
Jewish fiction
Jews
Group identity in literature.
Jews in literature.